Sarah Arneson and Anne Hooper Webb
Sarah Arneson and Anne Hooper Webb
World-renowned opera soprano and Red Cloud native Sarah Arneson returns Friday, September 1, for a 7:30 pm performance. Arneson will sing a selection of arias from classical composers such as Verdi, Bach, and Mozart. Violinist Anne Hooper Webb will accompany Arneson in what is sure to be a stirring operatic performance!
Special thanks to our sponsors Dennis and Sally Hansen and Marion Arneson for their support!
Programming at the National Willa Cather's Red Cloud Opera House is made possible with the support of the Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment.
About Sarah Arneson
Sarah Arneson has been an Associate Professor of Voice at many prestigious educational institutions across the United States. She has been a regular soloist in the opera houses of Berlin, Cologne, Dresden, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich, and Stuttgart. She has appeared with the Boston and Detroit Operas and was a soloist in the world premier of Pulitzer Prize winner William Bolcom’s Songs of Innocence and Experience. Sarah also founded an award-winning chamber opera program for young singers with stage director Marc Andre Angelini.
About Anne Hooper Webb
Anne Hooper Webb is a free-lance violinist, teacher, and Scottish fiddler of Boston, Massachusetts. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Music at The Mannes College of Music (now Mannes School of Music/New School) in New York. Further violin studies were at the Mozarteum Akademie, Salzburg, She performed as a member of the chamber orchestra Camerata Academica, Salzburg and of the Münchner Symphoniker in Munich. Since her return to the US in 1980, she has been a member of the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston and the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra. She is on the faculty of the Rivers School Conservatory in Weston and of the New School of Music in Cambridge. Twice winner of the U.S. National Scottish Fiddling Championships, Anne is a frequent performer in Scottish concerts and at dance events. She has made one recording of Scottish fiddle medleys with pianist Jacqueline Schwab, and she appears on several recordings for Scottish Country dancing.
